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Guance Container Monitoring

Freemium#3 of 48 in Container Monitoring

Guance Container Monitoring: Broad container and Kubernetes observability with a useful free tier and usage-based paid plans. Ranked #3 of 48 in Container Monitoring by our editors (9.2/10); pricing: Free plan; best for broad Kubernetes and container observability.

9.2/10Editor score

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At a glance

Editor score
9.2 / 10
Pricing
Free plan
Best for
Broad Kubernetes and container observability
Free plan
Yes
Container metrics
Yes
Founded
2013 · Shanghai, China
Facts checked
20 Sep 2026

Where it wins
- Covers clusters, workloads, pods, nodes, services, logs, and events
- Correlates metrics, logs, traces, network data, and events
- Free Plan includes up to 10 hosts and 10 monitors
Where it doesn't
- Free Plan limits retention to a 7-day rolling window
- Commercial pricing varies with usage across several data types
- Advanced enterprise controls require the Enterprise Plan

Our verdict on Guance Container Monitoring

Guance Container Monitoring is a container and Kubernetes observability product for individual developers, small teams, formal business environments, and medium or large enterprises. It collects container, workload, resource, log, event, and deployment data across Docker, Kubernetes, Containerd, CRI-O, AWS ECS Fargate, AWS EKS, GCP GKE Autopilot, and OpenTelemetry scenarios. Its monitoring scope spans containers, pods, workloads, nodes, namespaces, services, and clusters, with drill-downs between those levels.

The plan structure supports different operating scales. The Free Plan is for individual developers and small teams and includes container and Kubernetes collection, up to 10 hosts, 7-day rolling retention, and up to 10 monitors. The Commercial Plan is for formal business environments and uses pay-as-you-go pricing, with usage-based billing for metrics, logs, traces, RUM, synthetic tests, and notifications. The Enterprise Plan adds unlimited data retention, dedicated clusters, and SLA guarantees for medium and large enterprises. Teams should match the plan to their retention, infrastructure, and billing requirements rather than treat the free tier as an unlimited deployment option.

Its standout strength is breadth combined with shared investigative context. Users can track CPU, memory, disk, network, and resource-limit metrics; collect logs; monitor lifecycle, restart, deployment, and change events; and create alerts for node, pod, container, workload, and service conditions. Image, deployment, runtime, and workload metadata add operational context, while correlation across metrics, logs, traces, network data, and events can support investigation of short-lived containers after restarts or termination. Guance is a strong fit for teams wanting broad Kubernetes coverage; teams needing unlimited retention, dedicated clusters, or SLA guarantees should select Enterprise, while smaller deployments should assess the Free Plan's limits first.

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Guance Container Monitoring pricing

Plans Free planFreemium A usable free plan; paid tiers unlock the limits above. Prices checked 20 Sep 2026.

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Guance Container Monitoring fact sheet

Free plan	Yes
Paid from	Not verified
Supported platforms	Linux, Windows, macOS, Docker, Kubernetes
Container metrics	Yes
Resource alerts	Yes
Image monitoring	Yes
Runtime events	Yes
Container log collection	Yes
Deployment	Cloud, Self-hosted
Platforms	Web, Windows, macOS, Linux
Support	Email, Phone, Community, Docs
Built for	Solo, Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise (editorial estimate)
Integrations	8 integrations: Docker, Kubernetes, Containerd, CRI-O, AWS ECS Fargate, AWS EKS … See all →
Pricing	Free plan (source)
Website	guance.com
Facts checked	20 Sep 2026

Guance Container Monitoring integrations

Guance Container Monitoring lists 8 integrations on its own site.

Docker
Kubernetes
Containerd
CRI-O
AWS ECS Fargate
AWS EKS
GCP GKE Autopilot
OpenTelemetry

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